Phyo
given name · Burmese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Phyo is a given name, most frequently recorded in Myanmar (Burma), where it is the 10th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Burmese and Thai, written in the Latin script.
- MMMyanmar (Burma)1 in 15◐
- THThailand1 in 13K
- MYMalaysia1 in 50K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈13 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 102 ●
- 1 in 785K ◐
across 1 country
recorded for this name
6.2K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled พย์ in TH Thailand and Piyu in IN India.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #10 | 2,022,703 | 3K rec. | — | 1M | Phyo | 102 |
| TH Thailand | — | 8,952 | 1.3K rec. | — | #399,015 | พย์ | 66 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 1,308 | 533 rec. | — | — | Phyo | 23 |
| US United States | — | 390 | 548 rec. | — | listed | Phyo | 95 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 261 | 442 rec. | — | — | Phyo | 9 |
| SG Singapore | — | 154 | 147 rec. | — | — | Phyo | 20 |
| IN India | — | 131 | 80 rec. | — | 1 | Piyu | 26 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 92 | 118 rec. | — | — | Phyo | 29 |
| CN China | — | 32 | 2 rec. | — | — | Phyo | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | 17 | 24 rec. | — | — | Phyo | 10 |
| RU Russia | — | 14 | 12 rec. | — | — | Phyo | 14 |
| SE Sweden | — | 13△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 785K | 13 | — | 3 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Burmese2M100%
- Thai1.6K1%
- English6691%
- Spanish5401%
- Khmer3651%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Burmese | 2,024,058 | 100% |
| Thai | 1,595 | 1% |
| English | 669 | 1% |
| Spanish | 540 | 1% |
| Khmer | 365 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Pyo Min-sub. 1964KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean television director
- Pyo Myeong-huib. 1965KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean writer
- Pyo Chang-wonb. 1966KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean criminal psychologist
- Pyo Jin-inb. 1967KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean psychiatrist and writer
- Seungmoon Pyob. 1970KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean chemist
- Pyo Yeong Jaeb. 1972KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean voice actor
- Phyo Yong-myongb. 1989KPNorth Korean figure skater
- Pyo Ye-jinb. 1992KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Pyo Seung-jub. 1992KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean volleyball player
- P.Ob. 1993KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean rapper, singer and actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 7 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | This page features the most common names in Myanmar, published on WorldNames. | 2023 | 1M | #10 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 13 | #31,607 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #62,077 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #26,652 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #68,968 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #66,416 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #379,213 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 9 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Phyo?
- We estimate roughly 13 people bear Phyo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Phyo have the most bearers?
- Phyo is most frequently recorded in Myanmar (Burma), where it is most often spelled phyo.
- How common is Phyo compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Phyo is the 10th most common given name of 9,034 given names recorded there.
- Is Phyo a male or female name?
- Phyo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/phyoThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Phyo” — the 10th most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-09-12.